Quantity Surveying
Quantity Surveying & Commercial Support
Practical quantity surveying support for projects that need more than a price.
Avason is led by an experienced quantity surveyor, so the support available goes beyond producing an estimate. Where a project needs cost planning, commercial input or help keeping control of changes, that help is available without appointing a large consultancy.
You deal directly with the person doing the work. That means straight answers, quick conversations and advice that is grounded in how projects are actually delivered.
What a quantity surveyor actually does
In plain English, a quantity surveyor looks after the money side of a building project: what it should cost, what it is costing, and what happens commercially when things change.
That covers measuring and pricing work before it starts, reviewing the value of work as it progresses, pricing variations fairly, and giving the people making decisions enough cost information to make good ones.
Support Avason can provide
- Cost planning and early budget advice
- Detailed measured estimating
- Scope of works preparation
- Value engineering reviews
- Pricing of variations, additions and omissions
- Cash flow forecasting across the programme
- Construction programmes
- General commercial and cost advice on live projects
When it helps to bring in a QS
- Before committing to a scheme, when the budget needs testing
- When a tender or quotation carries real commercial risk
- When variations are stacking up and nobody has priced them
- When cash flow across the programme needs to be understood
- When an internal commercial team is temporarily at capacity
A direct service, not a consultancy machine
Avason is deliberately small. There is no account manager layer and no handing your project to whoever is free. The commercial experience comes from working within major businesses and PLC environments; the way it is delivered is personal and straightforward.
For many builders, developers and homeowners that combination is the point: serious commercial thinking, without the overhead or the distance.
Estimating or quantity surveying — which do you need?
If you need to know what a defined piece of work should cost, that is estimating. If you need someone to help manage cost, change and commercial risk as the project moves, that is quantity surveying support. Plenty of projects need both, and it is fine to start with a conversation rather than a decision.
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Related Pages
Construction estimating services
Detailed measured estimates prepared from your drawings and specifications.
Read moreVariation pricing
Price additions, omissions and changes as the project develops.
Read moreCash flow forecasting
Understand when money leaves and enters the project.
Read moreValue engineering
Review specification and method to manage cost without losing quality.
Read moreConstruction programmes
Sequence the work, set milestones and monitor progress.
Read moreSend us your project
Share your drawings and project information and we’ll confirm scope, fee and timescale.
Read moreDiscuss Your Project.
Tell us where the project is up to and what you need commercially, and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.